Kinship : An Introduction to the Basic Concepts

David (Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes) Parkin

ISBN 10: 0631203583 / ISBN 13: 9780631203582

Published by John Wiley And Sons Ltd Apr 1997, 1997

About this Item

Neuware - This book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship - to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family, and to the means by which one generation relates to those that come before and after it. It is addressed in particular to students of anthropology, but is also intended as a one-volume guide to those, such as social historians, demographers and geographers, who find it necessary to understand patterns of kinship in different places and at different times.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Kinship : An Introduction to the Basic Concepts
• Publisher: John Wiley And Sons Ltd Apr 1997
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631203583
• ISBN 13: 9780631203582
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 238W x 161H x 21D millimeters 238 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 482 grams

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Synopsis

This book is an introduction to the social anthropology of kinship - to the ways in which the peoples of different cultures marry and relate to each other within and outside the family.

About the Author

Robert Parkin trained at the University of Oxford, where he took his doctorate for a thesis on kinship in tribal India, which was later published by Oxford University Press as The Munda of Central India. He has written extensively on kinship, both theoretically and ethnographically. He is the author of a study of the life and work of the early French sociologist of religion, Robert Hertz, The Dark Side of Humanity (1996), and of A Guide to Austroasiatic Speakers and their Languages (1991). He is currently teaching at the Universities of Oxford and Oxford Brookes, having previously taught at the Free University of Berlin and the Jagiellonian University, Cracow.